Spiders found to extend their hearing by using webs as giant audio arrays

Spider silk carries some amazing capabilities, with its light weight, incredible elasticity and a status as one of nature's strongest materials. Scientists have made another extraordinary discovery in this area, finding that orb-weaving spiders use their webs as an array to extend their sense of hearing, a finding that could lead to advanced new forms of audio hardware.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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This Could Be Why The Massive Volcanic Eruption in Tonga Was So Explosive

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🔹Superfast electron rains detected pouring down onto Earth

🔹Concrete made with old tires proves itself in real-world setting

🔹Scientists Just Unveiled The Most Complete Human Genome of All Time, And It's Glorious

🔹It's Official, Microplastics Were Found Circulating in Human Blood For The First Time

🔹New Research Challenges Theory That Moderate Alcohol Consumption Benefits Heart Health

🔹Fish Doing Math? Scientists teach zebra mbuna fish and stingrays to add and subtract

🔹How soft liquid droplets erode hard surfaces

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Due to a series of solar flares, powerful auroras were observed in different parts of the Earth for almost a month.

Nasa recorded one of the largest M-class flares at the end of March.

The result is on the video from the Kola Peninsula, Russia

Slime that can be controlled by a magnetic field can navigate tight spaces and grasp objects, making it ideal for possible uses inside the body.

Li Zhang at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and his colleagues mixed neodymium magnet particles with borax, a common household detergent, and polyvinyl alcohol, a kind of resin, to form a slime that can be controlled …

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The Most Distant Exoplanet Ever Found by Kepler Is... Surprisingly Familiar

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Boston Dynamics’ robot dog Spot has been tasked with a new job - patrolling the ancient ruins of Pompeii. The robot will be used to inspect the site for safety issues and record structural changes over time to better manage the historic ruins.

One specific focus for Spot will be to investigate the safety of a number of tunnels used by thieves to raid Pompeii.

Two of our biggest environmental problems are the tons of unusable plastic waste, and the tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) which are released into the atmosphere in smokestack emissions. A new process is claimed to use the former to trap the latter.

The procedure begins with plastic waste being ground into a powder, after which it's mixed with potassium acetate – that's the unique part – and then heated at 600 ºC (1,112 ºF) for 45 minutes. Doing so renders the plastic powder into sorbent particles filled with nanoscale pores, which are very effective at trapping airborne carbon dioxide molecules.

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Microplastics Have Now Been Found in The Deepest Part of The Human Lungs

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Fungi May Be Communicating in a Way That Looks Uncannily Like Human Speech

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Case Study Shows It's Possible to Orgasm Using Only Your Mind

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A Strange Genetic Link Between Humans And Sea Anemones Was Just Confirmed

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This Bizarre Hole in The Water Is Not an Optical Illusion. It Actually Exists

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On April 12, 1961, Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet Russia citizen, carried out the first human space flight

The International Day of Human Space Flight is a United Nations-declared celebration of human spaceflight, observed every year on April 12. 

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A Rare Planetary Alignment Is About to Happen. Here's How You Can See It

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After 404 Days on Mars, Perseverance Has Finally Spotted Its Parachute

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There's a Massive Hidden Factor in The Evolution of Humans Over 2 Million Years

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The first vertical test shot of Green Launch's hydrogen-powered impulse launch cannon.

The hydrogen cannon can be fired every 60-90 minutes, sending its hypersonic projectile skyward where it'll "penetrate the atmosphere within a minute and shed its aeroshell." Low earth orbits between 300-1,000 km (186-621 miles) can be achieved in under two hours, and some much quicker.

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Ants Can Literally Build Bridges Without Training, And You Can Watch Them in Action

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Electric chopsticks that make low-salt food taste salty developed by Meiji University

One of the big drags of getting older is not being able to eat with abandon any more. Nowadays just looking at the amount of salt my kids pour onto their food is enough to give me heart palpitations, but it sure would be nice to indulge in those strong flavors without risking a lifestyle disease.

Food producer Kirin and Meiji University seem to agree and through extensive research have developed a pair of chopsticks that can stimulate the taste of salt in foods with low salt content. This still unnamed device does this simply by sending a weak electric current right into your food.